Architecture

Morning News Roundup: June 11, 2014

Architecture news and views from around the nation and beyond.

Photos of the Day: The Jacksonville Jaguars have removed 9,500 seats from their Florida stadium, and are replacing them with a two-tier party deck with two pools and 16 cabanas. [ESPN]

Credit: Jacksonville Jaguars

Credit: Jacksonville Jaguars

Credit: Jacksonville Jaguars

More on Florida stadiums: The Orlando City Soccer Club released renderings of their $110 million Florida stadium, which is slated to open in time for the 2016 season. [Orlando Sentinel] The city of Miami nixed the downtown site where soccer star David Beckham had proposed to build a Major League Soccer stadium. [Miami Herald]

Credit: Orlando City Soccer Club

ICYMI: The Frick Collection announced a new Davis Brody Bond–designed addition to its historic Carrère and Hastings building in New York. [ARCHITECT]

Quote of the Day: "It's a shame that Sugar Hill turned out so grim, because in every other way it's a model for the kind of high-design, low-cost housing that the city needs." —architecture critic Justin Davidson on the Sugar Hill affordable housing complex, designed by London-based Adjaye Associates, which is nearing completion in New York's Harlem neighborhood. [New York Magazine]

Infographic of the day: The most-visited museum in the world is the Louvre. [The Economist]